The fate of an evil tongue; seven putti stand around an anvil on which they hammer a tongue, landscape and architecture behind
Although printmakers traditionally used black ink, beginning in the mid-fifteenth century artists started experimenting with colored inks, particularly blue, green, brown, and red. The Italian printmaker Nicoletto da Modena printed a small number of his compositions using various shades of blue ink earlier in the century, making this impression quite rare.
Artwork Details
- Title: The fate of an evil tongue; seven putti stand around an anvil on which they hammer a tongue, landscape and architecture behind
- Artist: Nicoletto da Modena (Italian, Modena, active ca. 1500–ca. 1520)
- Date: ca. 1507
- Medium: Engraving printed in gray-blue ink
- Dimensions: Sheet: 11 7/16 x 8 1/8 in. (29.1 x 20.6 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924
- Object Number: 24.38.2
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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